---
title: Such a record is unique in the history of oral tradition, outside Ir… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Such a record is unique in the history of oral tradition, outside Ireland, where, however, it is quite a customary experience in the study of the Finn-saga. Who acts: record. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, IX. Deirdre., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/43/26/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Celtic Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/) / [IX. Deirdre.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/43/) / 26

# Celtic Fairy Tales, IX. Deirdre., sentence 26

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Such a record is unique in the history of oral tradition, outside Ireland, where, however, it is quite a customary experience in the study of the Finn-saga.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** record · **What happens:** be, study · **To what, where:** history, customary experience, study, Finn saga

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, IX. Deirdre.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (record), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7885:43:26
# text = Such a record is unique in the history of oral tradition, outside Ireland, where, however, it is quite a customary experience in the study of the Finn-saga.
1	Such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	3	det:predet	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	record	record	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	unique	unique	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	oral	oral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	tradition	tradition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
18	however	however	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
22	quite	quite	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	25	det:predet	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	customary	customary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	experience	experience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	study	study	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	Finn	Finn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	saga	saga	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | such record |  |  | the history of oral tradition |  | outside Ireland; unique *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | record | quite customary experience |  | the study of the Finn saga |  | however *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **study** |  |  | the Finn saga |  |  |  |  | nom study «act transitive»: of=patient |

<!-- .note -->
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

<!-- div src -->

**Text:** «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/43/25/)
- next →: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/43/27/)
- ↑ back to [IX. Deirdre.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/43/)